MDMD(2): Deflation and Friendship flip-flop

[David Casseres]

>I don't believe that Pynchon is for one minute suggesting that we
>would be better off conducting our affairs on the basis of astrology
>rather than, say, physics. Look what that did for Himmler and
>Hitler. But he *is* telling us that there is nothing forcing us to use
>physics in place of astrology other than our desire to use one or the
>other. The world does not force either upon us, we choose to apply one
>or other (or both) system(s) to the world for our own good reasons -
>`good' here being something we (individually and collectively - and
>there is yet another tension we have to resolve) determine the sense
>of.

I reject the notion that "there's nothing forcing us ... other than our 
desire."  But it's certainly worth noting that Gravity's Rainbow treats 
both the convinced spiritualists and the convinced scientists as 
grotesques.  He's probably agree with your view more than I do.


Cheers,
David